Job 30:5

5 On les chasse du milieu des hommes, On crie après eux comme après des voleurs.

Job 30:5 Meaning and Commentary

Job 30:5

They were driven from among [men]
From towns and cities, and all civil society, as unfit to be among them; not for any good, it may be observed, but for crimes that they had done, like our felons, and transported persons:

they cried after them as [after] a thief;
as they were driven and run along, the people called after them, saying, there goes a thief; which they said by way of abhorrence of them, and for the shame of them, and that all might be warned and cautioned against them; and, generally speaking, such as are idle and slothful, and thereby become miserable, are pilferers and thieves.

Job 30:5 In-Context

3 Desséchés par la misère et la faim, Ils fuient dans les lieux arides, Depuis longtemps abandonnés et déserts;
4 Ils arrachent près des arbrisseaux les herbes sauvages, Et ils n'ont pour pain que la racine des genêts.
5 On les chasse du milieu des hommes, On crie après eux comme après des voleurs.
6 Ils habitent dans d'affreuses vallées, Dans les cavernes de la terre et dans les rochers;
7 Ils hurlent parmi les buissons, Ils se rassemblent sous les ronces.
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